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Disability as a phenomenon: a discourse of social and biological understanding
- Author:
- HEDLUND Marianne
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(5), August 2000, pp.765-780.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This Swedish article addresses conceptualisations of disability and what it constitutes as a category in a social security system. It argues that the conceptualisation of disability involves a discourse about definitions, and discusses which domains of interest are produced by each of these understandings. The article argues that, rather than approaching the biological understanding as representing an antiquated concept to disability and the social model as a modern conceptualisation, these understandings are competitive. This makes disability into a flexible and heterogeneous concept, a term difficult to give a specified and limited meaning.
A standard bearer for progress
- Author:
- HUBER Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.2.00, 2000, p.18.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Profiles Evelyne Rank-Petruzziello, who has been appointed commissioner on the Disability Rights Commission.
Commission seeks to add to its remit
- Author:
- REVANS Lauren
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.9.00, 2000, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The fledgling Disability Rights Commission is already scoring victories for disabled people, but it wants to use the Human Rights Act to go further.
Trouble in Paradise- a disabled person's right to the satisfaction of a self-defined need: some conceptual and practical problems
- Author:
- HANDLEY Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(2), March 2000, pp.313-325.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper questions the usefulness of the rights-based approach to ameliorating social situation of disabled people in Britain and advances two criticisms. First, that rights and self-defined needs have been under-theorised by disability theorists to the extent that they have insufficiently appreciated he problems that these approaches pose. The paper suggests that rights to appropriate resources to satisfy self-defined needs will generate vast numbers of competing rights claims and that the resulting tendency of rights to conflict has been under-appreciated. Secondly, that there has been little consideration of how these conflicts might be reconciled. The first two sections of the paper look at the concepts of ascribed and self-defined needs, respectively, whilst the final one looks at some of the problems of the rights approach and some of the difficulties of making self-defined need the basis of rights claims.
Prenatal testing and disability rights
- Editors:
- PARENS Erik, ASCH Adrienne
- Publisher:
- Georgetown University Press
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 387p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
As prenatal tests proliferate, the medical and broader communities perceive that such testing is a logical extension of good prenatal care. However, prenatal tests have been critised by the disability rights community as they are used primarily to decide to abort a fetus that would have been born with a disability. Arguably, such tests reinforce discrimination against and misconceptions about people with disabilities. This collection of papers by health care professionals, academics and members of the disability community debate the implications of prenatal testing for disabled people and for parent child relationships generally.
The law, rights and disability
- Editor:
- COOPER Jeremy
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 317p.,bibliog.s
- Place of publication:
- London
Includes chapters on: working in partnership with disabled people; changing attitudes to the rights of people; improving the civil rights of people with disabilities through international law; improving the civil rights of people with disabilities through domestic law; the legal regulation of the powers and duties of local authorities with regard to disabled people; the Disability Discrimination Act 1995; disability, housing and homelessness; disability and mental health law; disabled children; and messages from disability research for law, policy and practice.
Out of services: a survey of local service provision for elderly and disabled people in England
- Authors:
- FRAZER Rosemary, GLICK Georgia
- Publisher:
- Needs Must
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 32p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Needs Must is a coalition of more than thirty organisations campaigning to restore people's rights to community care. This research report presents findings from a study of changes to the services people receive since the Gloucestershire judgement in March 1997.
Telling our own stories: reflections on family life in a disabling world
- Editors:
- MURRAY Pippa, PENMAN Jill
- Publisher:
- Parents with Attitude
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 276p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
Personal accounts of disability, from disabled people and their families, introduced from the perspective of human rights, inclusion, and a social model of disability.
'What matters to me is not what you're talking about' - maintaining the social model of disability in 'public and private' negotiations
- Authors:
- BECKETT Clare, WRIGHTON Elizabeth
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(7), December 2000, pp.991-999.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Moving from a medical to a social model of individual disability is a political process of change with implications for understanding of and relationship to borders between individual, social life and political participation. This process has echoes in the conceptual experience of change through movement for women's liberation and gay liberation. Conceptualisation of a public/private divide has been identified in both these movements, and can also be used productively to further the use of a social model of disability. In this way, public change in status and participation can be linked to private defeat of barriers to public and political participation. This article identifies some uses of conceptualising public and private as a way of locating service provision within a social model of disability.
Right on our side
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(1), September 2000, pp.6-8.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Reports on how legislation is just one of the many tools the Disability Rights Commission will be using to tackle discrimination.